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James Weidman plays post-Coltrane harmony on the piano, using the sustain pedal for the profundity effect, and the songs work like wending, zigzagging chants, developing through collective improvisation. Lovano switches among five different horns two drummers, Otis Brown and Francisco Mela, play in loose agreement, adding color and texture more than concerted groove. The album isnвЂ™t set up as a reference to any one composer, style or period, but weвЂ™re strangely deep into the early 1970s here. Made with his new band, Us Five, itвЂ™s sketchy, groovy and a little burdensome. ItвЂ™s a bit out of focus, perhaps intentionally. The breadth of his sound, his billowing improvising and his consistent energy makes lots of kinds of music work. But what he offers in a larger sense is generosity and optimism. Musically heвЂ™s got whatвЂ™s required for all of it.

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Joe LovanoвЂ™s jazz records have taken on lots of different postwar stripes: bebop, the post-bop mainstream, big-band, third-stream, conceptual albums around the repertory of famous singers, more-or-less free jazz. JOE LOVANO US FIVE вЂњFolk ArtвЂќ (Blue Note) Nash, weighs guilt-stricken pleas against a stark, thumping beat, with compellingly creepy results. As for his weirdest moment: вЂњInto You Deep,вЂќ by Mr. RichieвЂ™s most relaxed moment occurs during вЂњIвЂ™m in Love,вЂќ a Stargate song written with Ne-Yo. Richie has inspired both camps, and maybe sparked some competition: Stargate writes a song called вЂњForever,вЂќ and the other duo comes up with вЂњForever and a Day.вЂќ вЂњJust GoвЂќ features five songs apiece by Stargate and another bankable team, Christopher Stewart, known as Tricky, and Terius Nash, known as The-Dream. Richie is expanding on a formula that brought success a few years ago, when he released вЂњI Call It Love,вЂќ a ballad produced by the Norwegian duo Stargate. Richie doesnвЂ™t sound out of his element singing on tracks provided by contemporary R&B hit makers, complete with up-to-the-minute production. But if that makes вЂњJust GoвЂќ a textbook adult-contemporary album, it also lends credible emotional footing to the songs. RichieвЂ™s core demographic, which skews overwhelmingly female, and generally older than any of his kids. вЂњYouвЂќ in this case is a placeholder for Mr. вЂњI am not okay/Unless youвЂ™re okay,вЂќ he declares in one ballad, вЂњIвЂ™m Not Okay.вЂќ On the lightly Caribbean-flavored title track В— produced by Akon and now on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart В— he sings, вЂњIвЂ™m here to take that stress from you.вЂќ Then he offers to cook a meal, make the bed and spirit you by sailboat to the Bahamas, where heвЂ™ll make good on the promise of a massage. He wants to make sure youвЂ™re comfortable, fulfilled and secure in his devotion. Lionel Richie is a one-man service economy through much of вЂњJust Go,вЂќ his solicitous new album.